Ar-Pharazôn

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In the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien, Ar-Pharazôn the Golden (3118–3319 S.A., r. 3255–3319 S.A.), Tar-Calion in Quenya, was the 25th and last king of Númenor.

Ar-Pharazôn was the nephew of King Tar-Palantir and took to wife Tar-Palantir's daughter, Míriel (against her will as well as Númenórean law). Tar-Míriel should have become Ruling Queen of Númenor, but Ar-Pharazôn was able to usurp the throne. He gave to his wife the Adûnaic name Ar-Zimraphel, refused to use the Elven speech, and persecuted the last vestiges of the Faithful.

Ar-Pharazôn was the most powerful of all the kings of Númenor. He first tested his nation's strength against Sauron. With a great fleet he landed at Umbar. The sheer overwhelming size and might of his army caused Sauron's forces to flee and Sauron surrendered to Ar-Pharazôn without a battle. "In the folly of his pride" Ar-Pharazôn took Sauron as a prisoner back to Númenor.

Aided by the One Ring, Sauron was able to corrupt Ar-Pharazôn and most of the Númenóreans, and eventually convinced them to attack Valinor. "Sauron lied to the King, declaring that everlasting life would be his who possessed the Undying Lands". Ar-Pharazôn built the "greatest armament that the world had seen" to attack Valinor in 3310 S.A. and finally broke the Ban of the Valar, landing on the shores of the Undying Lands in 3319 S.A. The Valar then laid down their guardianship of the world and called upon Eru the One, who sank the invasion fleet, and all of Númenor beneath the ocean, and changed the shape of the world so that Valinor was no longer connected to Middle-earth. The King himself had perished although in Akallabêth, it states that "Ar-Pharazôn and his mortal warriors who had set foot on Aman were buried by falling hills, imprisoned in the Caves of the Forgotten until the Last Battle and Day of Doom."

The line of Elros survived in Elendil and his two sons, Isildur and Anárion.